Cataracts Digital Care Pathway
Digitally monitor your cataract surgery patients before and after surgery, using
patient-reported outcomes data to deliver personalised, value-driven care.
Higher quality care at your fingertips
Cataracts are a common, potentially blinding symptomatic eye disease. They have a significant adverse impact on quality of life, for which cataract surgery is the only effective treatment to improve visual acuity.
For patients undergoing cataract surgery, key post-operative outcomes include visual function and relief from visual disability, the impacts of which can be captured using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Routine digital capture of PROMs before and after cataract surgery can help facilitate surgical decision making, improve patient-physician communication and highlight improvements in visual function due to surgery from the patient's own perspective.
About the pathway
This cataracts surgery pathway is based on the International Consortium of Health Outcomes Measurement’s (ICHOM) Standard Set, which was developed, tested and validated by leading researchers and patient groups from around the world.
Patient Cohort & Treatment Type
Cohort:
All patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic cataract(s)
Treatment Types:
Phacoemulsification
Sutured Extracapsular Cataract Extraction
Sutureless Extracapsular Extraction
Intracapsular Extraction
Schedule
Baseline - Preoperative
Post-Operative Follow-Up
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
Catquest-9SF
Vision-related activity limitation
Key Benefits
How it works
ZEDOC has complete patient-facing and provider-facing components that enable real-time outcomes to be captured remotely and fed back to care teams in real-time.
For Patients
At each point in the outcomes schedule, ZEDOC automatically communicates with patients (via SMS or Email) on behalf of the care team, sending secure links to their digital PROMs.
ZEDOC’s low friction patient app allows people to report their condition on their own devices, from anywhere. Key features include:
No download required
Accessibility settings to improve usability
Interactive elements that go beyond surveys
For Providers
With a centralised Provider Portal, ZEDOC turns raw PROM data into meaningful insights via interactive and real-time clinical dashboards.
Set up is simple and fast, with our team able to help you organise licenses for the instruments and get your staff trained with the system.
Key features include:
Set up within one week
Billing managed either monthly or yearly
Interested in the Pathway?
Complete the sign up form and our team will get in touch to personally walk you through the care pathway and answer any of your questions
“The Catquest-9SF is short and highly responsive to cataract surgery, being able to detect statistically significant improvements in visual function 3 weeks after surgery”
McAlinden, C., Gothwal, V. K., Khadka, J., Wright, T. A., Lamoureux, E. L., & Pesudovs, K. (2011). A head-to-head comparison of 16 cataract surgery outcome questionnaires. Ophthalmology, 118(12), 2374-2381.
Stolk‐Vos, A. C., Visser, M. S., Klijn, S., Timman, R., Lansink, P., Nuijts, R., ... & Reus, N. J. (2018). Effects of clinical parameters on patient‐reported outcome in cataract patients: a multicentre study. Acta ophthalmologica, 96(6), 586-591.